How can teachers help younger children recognise AI and question what it produces?
Develop age-appropriate classroom activities that help younger children recognise AI, question its outputs and consider privacy and fairness.
Children already meet AI in recommendations, generated images and conversational tools, often before they have the language to notice what is happening. They need adults who can help them be curious without accepting every convincing answer at face value.
This course gives teachers age-appropriate activities for helping younger children recognise AI, question what it produces and begin thinking about fairness, privacy and human responsibility.
Help younger children become curious and questioning about the AI already around them.
Session 1
Notice where children meet AI, then explore prediction, data and what a system can and cannot understand.
In practice: Teachers use Finnish classroom approaches that start with children’s own questions, drawings and everyday encounters with technology.
Session 2
Use images, stories and recommendations to practise reliability, fairness, privacy and creative judgement.
In practice: They compare human and machine-made stories or images, then ask what makes an output convincing, mistaken or worth questioning.
Session 3
Adapt one classroom activity so children can notice, question and explain their decisions about AI.
In practice: The aim is one manageable curriculum activity, with clear choices about when AI may help and when children need to do the thinking themselves.
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Registering interest is free. A course run is confirmed once at least six participants have registered their interest. Until then, neither a place nor a course run is guaranteed. Booking terms →
Run the course with your own staff, on your own dates.
Session 1
Teachers work with activities that help children recognise AI in everyday life and build workable mental models of what it does. We explore prediction, data, anthropomorphism and the difference between producing an answer and understanding something.
Session 2
Through images, stories, recommendations and shared examples, teachers practise ways of helping children ask sensible questions about reliability, fairness, privacy, creativity and human responsibility.
Session 3
Teachers adapt or design one age-appropriate learning experience linked to a real subject or curriculum context. They decide what pupils need to think through themselves, where AI might add value and how children can explain their choices.
Bring back one activity, question or classroom observation. The group reviews what children noticed, misunderstood or challenged, then identifies a realistic next step.
Every course we run is built on what research says makes professional learning change practice. Here is what that looks like in this one.
Short explanations of what AI does, drawn from examples in the lives of children and put in language younger learners can follow.
You choose one subject or curriculum context and design an age-appropriate AI literacy experience for it.
You try the activities as a learner first, then adapt shared materials for your own pupils with a small group giving feedback.
You test an activity with pupils back at school, then use a live online follow-up session to review what the children noticed and refine the next step.
Three live online sessions, one week apart, move from understanding and interrogation to practical curriculum design. Teachers work with shared examples, apply the ideas to their own learners and receive structured peer feedback. An optional group follow-up supports refinement after the course.
The course family is informed by the OECD and European Commission AI Literacy Framework, including the Engage, Create, Manage and Shape dimensions, alongside Nordic AI literacy work including Faktabaari EDU. The Nordic Learning Company translates these reference points into age-appropriate classroom learning and professional judgement about when AI supports learning and when it replaces intellectual work students need to do themselves.
EUR 350 per participant, excl. VAT
Course materials, facilitation, a certificate of attendance and an online follow-up session.
Nick Praulins is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads our work with schools and educators, shaping the learning philosophy, pedagogy and programme design behind its education practice.
View profile →Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.
View profile →You can move to another date or send a colleague at no cost. If you cancel more than four weeks before the start, we keep 30% of the fee; inside four weeks, we keep the full fee. If we cancel, you choose a full refund or another date.
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EUR 350 per participant, excl. VAT
Starts 15 February 2027
